Witches High Tea

[wolfrose]

Witches High Tea
Originally uploaded by Gwen Wolfrose

Today was The Utah Black Hat Society's Third Annual Witches High Tea event. It was held at the Grand America Hotel in down town Salt Lake City this afternoon from 2pm till 5pm. Don't ever tell any of the fifty attendees that real witches don't wear pointy hats because obviously, they do.

The Black Hat Society is a pagan social group founded in 2006 by Chrissy Johnson, a Salt Lake City denizen. The high tea event held each year in October is the pinnacle event for the society where one gets to dress to the nines in their finest witch attire, don their best pointy hat and enjoy a grand afternoon of tea and conversation. The society also hosts an afternoon tea in the spring and have been seen caroling on the streets of Salt Lake in December for the annual Witches Wassail. Chrissy, along with TaMara and Kayote, the organizers of the society's events, have stated that early next summer they intend to add another exciting event to the society's calendar.

If you do not live in the Salt Lake area and think The Black Hat Society sounds like your kind of party please do consider starting up a Black Hat Society in your area.

The Salt Lake NBC affiliate, KSL5, covered the event held today and ran the following clip on the six o'clock news:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yekJcWZwxLQ

Comments

[ishara.livejournal.com]

TaMara ?

...Please tell me the random capitalization is a typo?

[gwenwolfrose.livejournal.com]

Why? It's not random, that is how her name is written ... legally even.

[ishara.livejournal.com]

...Huh, okay.

I'm a Tamara (IRL), and met a few others, I'm pretty sure I've never met one with a funky fantasy novel capitalization in the middle before.

Is it pronounced either of the regular ways? (Tam-ara or Tahmahrah - mine's the latter, all soft vowels because I'm Russian) Like, is the M a hard consonant in her name?

[gwenwolfrose.livejournal.com]

tuh-mar-uh

[aislingthebard.livejournal.com]

That's the reason for the capitalization. To ensure correct pronunciation. Tuh MAH ruh. And she is also TaMara "in real life." I believe your comment about "funky fantasy novel capitalization in the middle" is somewhat disdainful and rude, arising out of ignorance. Basically, how another person's mother chose to spell and pronounce her name is none of your business, is it?

[seshen.livejournal.com]

I saw an ad for them somewhere. Might want to let them know that the picture used, ladies in tall pointy hats having tea, is a group of English church women. ;)

[aislingthebard.livejournal.com]

We know that. That's why we used it. Irony, yannow...